Don Surber: "[Mitch McConnell] was the guy who not only opposed McCain-Feingold, but took it to court. Unfortunately, the first woman Supreme Court justice ignored the First Amendment and upheld that campaign deform." Those damned women--they screw up everything! Whether John Paul Stevens, David Souter,...
Author: Scott Lemieux
A Republican-led panel in Missouri has claimed that illegal immigration is caused by...abortion. But I'm not sure why they're stopping there: if they banned birth control, that would really stop.
Shorter Verbatim Grover Norquist: "Bob Sherwood's seat would have been overwhelmingly ours, if his mistress hadn’t whined about being throttled." Yeah, what a tragedy that these moral giants no longer.
Trent Lott: the #2 Senate Republican. Maybe the GOP will now make Jeff Sessions the RPC chair too, just like Red State wants. I forget if it was Atrios or Josh that put this up on their site during the Lott incident, but let's return...
As you would expect, it takes Glenn Reynolds to really push the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics to sublime heights of lunacy. Does the deteriorating situation in Iraq prove, say,.
Amy Sullivan's recent article celebrating anti-choice Colorado SenatorGovernor-elect Bill Ritter makes some arguments that allow me to clarify some of my difficulties with "centrist" arguments about abortion. First of all,.
A commenter in this thread says that recess appointments can't be used for the federal bench; actually, they can. This seems like a good time to remember that President Clinton used a recess appointment to appoint Roger Gregory, because Jesse Helms otherwise refused to allow...
In light of Mario Loyola's quite remarkable claim that were the federal government were to pass a law requiring militias to disband instead of resisting a foreign occupation the people.
Four of Bush's more incompetent and wingnutty choices for the federal courts look dead. In general, the Senate Dems should study how Republicans obstructed Clinton's choices in the last years.
Since a couple of people have asked, I should probably say a little more than my flip response to Pithlord's hope (and, at one time, prediction) that the federal "partial birth" legislation will not be overturned because it exceeds Congress' Commerce Clause powers. The long...
Lindsay won't be happy, but apparently Feingold isn't running for President. I'm a little ambivalent, because I like Feingold a lot. But in light of the election it makes sense..
Shorter Ann Althouse: Democrats must start answering the following question: "When will you stop being traitors?" As Glenn points out, what's particularly funny about this is that Althouse, Reynolds, Peretz.